First, it’s just an implementation detail, and if you put const there, don’t put it in the declaration set (header). Only put it in the implementation file: // header void MyFunction(int age, House &purchased_house); // .cpp file void MyFunction(const int age, House &purchased_house); { … } Whether or not a parameter is const in a … Read more
There are several ways, but first you need to understand why object cleanup is important, and hence the reason std::exit is marginalized among C++ programmers. RAII and Stack Unwinding C++ makes use of a idiom called RAII, which in simple terms means objects should perform initialization in the constructor and cleanup in the destructor. For … Read more
For use in Visual Studio, this has been answered here. In particular, the string provided in OBWANDO’s answer can be used to set the break point condition. Note, however, that it is a bit klugy. You will receive a warning message when the breakpoint is hit even though the debugger has stopped. It doesn’t appear … Read more
Doxygen comments are displayed in Eclipse on hover when written in: cpp file (or header) file before method source (not declaration) header file before class declaration
A medical company I work with uses Coverity and Klocwork to check the code for possible problems such as resource leaks and uninitialized pointer getting used. However, these are tools and not standard for safety critical code. What I have seen is that MISRA has been working on a standard for C++. They started with … Read more
QtWebEngine manages downloads via the QWebEngineProfile class with the downloadRequested signal.
Introduction template<int F(), int N = F()> void func (); In this answer we will go through the relevant sections of the International Standard, step by step, to prove that the above snippet is well-formed. What does the International Standard (N3337) say? The Standardese 14.1p9 Template parameters [temp.param] A default template-argument is a template-argument (14.3) … Read more
In general, I don’t find the documentation is that bad. In general again, the information is “somewhere” in there. The main problem I see is a lack of uniformity, making it difficult to find that “somewhere”. As you write in your question, the docs were written by different people, and a different times, and that’s … Read more
The question was answered in the comments. Is tab completion a feature of the particular shell the application is being executed from? yes What are the basics I need to know about getting my application to support tab completion (particularly in C++)? basically learn more about bash-completion
Since std::get has no explicit statements in the specification about its data race properties, we fall back to the default behavior defined in [res.on.data.races]. Specifically, paragraphs 2 and 3 tell the story: A C++ standard library function shall not directly or indirectly access objects (1.10) accessible by threads other than the current thread unless the … Read more